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Welcome

Welcome to the new otaku-elite.

This is the home of the original otaku-elite online gaming/anime community web
forum (active 1999–2004). If you are looking for “heero” or “karia” then you’ve
found the right place.
This site is now dedicated to programming, web design & development, linux, os x, video games and anime.

Adding [Text] Shadows in iOScode
Although it’s very simple, I often forget how to add a shadow in iOS using Objective-C. It’s not so much that I forget, but that there are certain required parameters that need to be set in order for it to...
read more...— 29 November, 2014

Nov 06

Debugging Cordovacode
I had to revisit an old project today that was built on Cordova and App Framework. It was like hell reacquainting myself with the application and I’m still not through, but I thought I’d post a few quick references that...
read more...— 06 November, 2014

Help! My iPhone Contacts Won't Sync!blog
Today I installed iOS 8 beta 2. After installing, my contacts were gone and absolutely refused to sync from the Exchange account I had set up for my gmail. I’m going to teach you how to fix the sync issue...
read more...— 26 June, 2014

XCode Opens Storyboard as XMLcode
If you’ve just run into a problem where your storyboard or UI files in XCode open in a code editor it can be tedious to figure out what the problem is. The first time this happened to me I was...
read more...— 03 June, 2014

Jun 01

Preparing for iOS Developmentcode
Soon I’ll begin blogging more and more about iOS development. I hate XCode. Here are a few things to help get us started: XVim If you’re an absolute vim addict, such as myself, then pretty much everything you do on...
read more...— 01 June, 2014

Apr 20

Open Random File Command Line Osxblog
Ever want to select a random file on the command line? Or just randomize anything? Well it’s possible using shuf. We can use the shuf command to shuffle any input from stdin. Use ls | shuf -n1 to pull a...
read more...— 20 April, 2014

Mar 22

Gurai VS. Goro: The Final Showdownjapanese
Most of my Japanese I’ve picked up simply from talking to native speakers in Japanese. Asking them to repeat themselves a few hundred times, texting on LINE and using my favorite iPhone Japanese Dictionary imiwa?. One thing I picked up...
read more...— 22 March, 2014

Mar 19

Going Angularcode
Lately at work I’ve been doing a lot of research and not a lot of blogging. I am going to make an attempt over the course of the next few days to update my blog to reflect the massive amount...
read more...— 19 March, 2014

Mar 18

What's Your Major?japanese日本語
This is kind of embarrassing because it’s something that I really should know but somehow I skipped over learning. For today’s blog post I’m going to quickly review some vocabulary and phrases related to “your major.” Granted I’m not a...
read more...— 18 March, 2014

Mar 04

Journaling In Japanese, Day 1blog
Somewhat inspired by my Japanese teacher’s request for me to write down (preferably on paper, with my own two hands) a journal entry—one sentence for each day of the week—I’ve decided to do it on the internet instead (where I...
read more...— 04 March, 2014

Feb 15

5 Easy Steps to Writing Better Codecode
I’ve seen a lot of bad code written before. This is partially because I’ve written a lot of bad code myself in the past (and for that matter, I still do sometimes). The first step to solving any problem is...
read more...— 15 February, 2014

Jun 06

Rake - Command failed with status (127)blog
So today I got this annoying message from rake that I have seen way too many times. It looks something like the following: $ rake updb scripts/updb.sh rake aborted! Command failed with status (127): [./scripts/updb.sh...] /path/to/Rakefile:16:in `block in <top (required)>'...
read more...— 06 June, 2013

Adding Videosblog
Hey all, I haven’t been updating too much recently so I wanted to drop you a line and let you know what’s going on. I am starting to design some new sections of the site, since for a long time...
read more...— 02 June, 2013

Hearing Japanese - Kaichou wa Maid-sama!japanese
Ah! Sorry I have not been keeping up with my studious ways. My Japanese P.I.C. (that’s partner-in-crime, or in normal people speak my “study buddy”) has been largely unavailable so I haven’t been doing anything much in the line of...
read more...— 30 May, 2013

Hearing Japanese - Magi, Part 2japanese
I finished up watching the Magi anime a few days ago and took some more notes. Here they are: Vocabulary List: What I thought I heard What I actually heard Meaning yatsura やつら 奴ら those guys shikashi しかし However; but...
read more...— 12 May, 2013

Japanese Section Launched!blog
Despite the fact that I did start writing articles yesterday tonight is the actual night I am launching the content, since I had to do quite a bit of work to figure out how I wanted the pages to be...
read more...— 09 May, 2013

May 08

Hearing Japanese - Magijapanese
Today I started studying Japanese together with a friend. We both had studied separately and decided to brush up on our japanese. In addition to going through my beginner textbook, Japanese for Busy People, I decided that I would augment...
read more...— 08 May, 2013

Quickly Showing a Hidden OS X Docknixos x
A friend of mine for years has been searching for a way to instantly show his auto-hidden dock, with zero delay. Until he recently discovered the trick to removing the delay and shared it with me I could not understand...
read more...— 10 January, 2013

Jan 02

Upgrading grep in OS X Revisitedosx
Just the other day I realized I was using the OS X stock grep, which was lacking a few features I wanted, some features in particular are the ability to fully color highlight grep results with the --color option, or...
read more...— 02 January, 2013

Jan 02

Creating CSS Sprites for LESSnix
Recently I’ve been working on a project which is using LESS to preprocess its CSS. The mockup design I was given requires image rollovers—which for the sake of having the rollover image ready and loaded—calls for the use of CSS...
read more...— 02 January, 2013

Apr 20

Steam Powered SSDblog
Anyone who owns a solid state hard drive and has a steam account can know how frustrating it may be running low on hard disk and not being able to split up your steam games. Today I’ve come up with...
read more...— 20 April, 2012

Mar 14

Upgrading grep in OS Xosx
This Article Is Outdated The information in this article is outdated and may contain information which is now incorrect. A newer version of this article is now available. By default OS X (10.7 in this case) comes installed with grep...
read more...— 14 March, 2012

Mar 13

Gettin' Tango Wid itosx
Recently I decided to give Sequel Pro another whirl instead of running SQLyog as I normally do on OS X under wine using WineBotter. My first objective, however, was to customize the color scheme to something my eyes are more...
read more...— 13 March, 2012

code
I found out today that it’s possible to autocomplete rake tasks in bash. All that’s needed is a simple ruby script and some changes to your ~/.profile. (Original information taken from a tumble blog post) First you need to grab...
read more...— 27 February, 2012

Feb 23

Including Files Using Straight HTMLnix
Getting the job done for a particular task always calls forth the need for the proper set of tools. In this particular case, the task was to create a single-page static html content-rich site. When I say the site is...
read more...— 23 February, 2012

Stop Rearranging My Spaces, OS X!blog
One of the most aggravating things I’ve had to put up with in Lion so far since I started using it a month back probably has to be the revamped concept of spaces. Being a huge linux nerd, I jumped...
read more...— 09 February, 2012

Feb 08

code
To fix an incorrect commit message to the head of a repository use the following command: git commit --amend This will allow you to enter a new message for the previous commit. From stack overflow: Used to amend the tip...
read more...— 08 February, 2012

Feb 03

MySQL and Rake - Library Not Loadedcodemysql
When trying to run a Rakefile that I created under a linux environment on OS X for the first time I ran into this message: dlopen(/Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle Reason: image not found - /Users/myuser/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/mysql2-0.3.11/lib/mysql2/mysql2.bundle...
read more...— 03 February, 2012

Jan 31

Managing Images with Jekyllcode
I’ve only been using Jekyll for about a week now and I can already see how managing images for each post could be an issue. I figure, I can’t have just one image/ directory and dump everything in there because...
read more...— 31 January, 2012

Jan 30

codemysql
Today while trying to apply my catalog price rules I came across the following message: SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'e.display_price_group_0' in 'field list' After searching google I found out that this can be fixed by rebuilding the...
read more...— 30 January, 2012

vim
This one is a widely known feature of vim, as it should be for any other editor out there. Here’s a brief example on how to set your tab spacing settings depending on the filetype in vim. Add the following...
read more...— 30 January, 2012

Jan 26

A Better Solution for Less.cssvim
Recently I’ve discovered the joys of working with less.css (not to be confused with the less framework, which is also related to CSS). I think the one thing that turned me on to the idea was the Less.app GUI application...
read more...— 26 January, 2012

Jan 25

Excel vs. CSVblogmisc
I came across an interesting bug today with Microsoft Excel 2012. Historically, Excel has had this lovely issue of not being able to handle importing CSV data when there is an endline character in the middle of a field. So...
read more...— 25 January, 2012

Jan 24

nix
The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 that I use at work has this lovely extra backspace button that I always seem to hit by mistake against the bottom side of the desk when using the keyboard on my lap, which...
read more...— 24 January, 2012

Jan 23

codemysql
I was asked recently to provide a feed from Magento which would provide a list of all active SKUs, with product names, descriptions, urls and a comma separated list of categories by name. I assembled a query in MySQL. I...
read more...— 23 January, 2012

otaku-elite meets jekyllblog
After not having the desire to post content to this site for a very long time I decided it was time to take action. But how? And what was the problem in the first place? The Problem I needed a...
read more...— 21 January, 2012

Jan 21

/etc/hosts.ac? what the duck is that?vim
Recently at my job I’ve started doing some work on a mac (yay!) which means I now get to use some of the fun extra mac tools that I don’t have available on linux, but it also means having some...
read more...— 21 January, 2012